Eric Rafla-Yuan

Jan 9, 2025 | kevinmd.com | Eric Rafla-Yuan |Janet Ma |Debra Shute |Robert Pearl

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an increasingly dominant topic in the daily news. From banking to birding, personalized marketing to publishing, and smart homes to sports, AI is permeating all aspects of society. In medicine and health care, we are seeing the same thing. We are experiencing a tremendous amount of excitement, promise, and enthusiasm about the potential impact of AI, as well as understandable caution and concern.

Dec 7, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Lashawnda Thornton |Eric Rafla-Yuan |Janet Ma |Shakeel Ahmed

Regardless of how one might have voted in the election, the aftermath now includes a dizzying array of proposed cabinet and other health-related appointments and rumors about what they and the new administration might do. How do we in medicine navigate all of this? The answer may not be intuitive: gratitude. We’re not talking here about insincere gratitude, or forced gratitude, as discussed in a recent Wall Street Journal article. We’re talking about digging deep for the real thing.

Jul 1, 2024 | journals.healio.com | Dilip V. Jeste |Eric Rafla-Yuan

IntroductionPsychiatry, as a branch of medicine, has traditionally focused on medical risk factors and medical intervention strategies for people with psychiatric disorders. However, in recent decades, there has been growing literature on the impact of social factors on health, especially in people with mental illnesses.

Dec 30, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Gene Uzawa Dorio |Eric Rafla-Yuan |Janet Ma |Robert Pearl

The practice of medicine has been significantly enhanced by advancing technology. However, even with four years of medical school and an MD degree, this only provides the foundation for what is needed to be a good doctor. A critically important skill is the ability to make sound medical decisions. This is why there is a hierarchy in training that begins after medical school, progressing through internship, residency, fellowship, and eventually leading to becoming a staff physician.

Sep 18, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Robert Pearl |Timothy Hoff |Eric Rafla-Yuan |Janet Ma

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes!Join Samuel Shem, a renowned novelist, playwright, activist, Rhodes Scholar, and professor in medical humanities at NYU School of Medicine. We’ll dive into his latest novel, Our Hospital, which marks the culmination of The Healing Quartet, spanning fifty years of American medicine.